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1834 Salem, Massachusetts - 1923 North Canaan, Connecticut. Known for: Bird and floral studies, holiday card designer.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges became a specialist in detailed watercolor studies of plants and flowers and birds in their natural surroundings. This was a time when watercolor became... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges became a specialist in detailed watercolor studies of plants and flowers and birds in their natural surroundings. This was a time when watercolor became increasingly respected. She was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelite* movement in art, the close-focus,... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges became a specialist in detailed watercolor studies of plants and flowers and birds in their natural surroundings. This was a time when watercolor became increasingly respected. She was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelite* movement in art, the close-focus, detailed, small scale watercolor technique espoused by John Ruskin. Of her painting of this period, landscapist John Kensett wrote in Art Journal: 'Her works are like little lyric poems, and she... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges became a specialist in detailed watercolor studies of plants and flowers and birds in their natural surroundings. This was a time when watercolor became increasingly respected. She was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelite* movement in art, the close-focus, detailed, small scale watercolor technique espoused by John Ruskin. Of her painting of this period, landscapist John Kensett wrote in Art Journal: 'Her works are like little lyric poems, and she dwells with loving touches on each of her birds like blossoms atilt among the leaves'. (Rubinstein 62). However, later in her career, her style became somewhat looser in that the backgrounds were less defined. She was also an illustrator, a part of her... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges became a specialist in detailed watercolor studies of plants and flowers and birds in their natural surroundings. This was a time when watercolor became increasingly respected. She was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelite* movement in art, the close-focus, detailed, small scale watercolor technique espoused by John Ruskin. Of her painting of this period, landscapist John Kensett wrote in Art Journal: 'Her works are like little lyric poems, and she dwells with loving touches on each of her birds like blossoms atilt among the leaves'. (Rubinstein 62). However, later in her career, her style became somewhat looser in that the backgrounds were less defined. She was also an illustrator, a part of her career that began in 1876 when she sold her first watercolors to publisher and chromolithographer* Louis Prang. For Prang,... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (52)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesPaintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004Dearinger, David B.672 pages (color)Artists of the Litchfield Hills
2003
(Exhibition catalog)Austin, Robert Michael132 pages (color)The Sellars Collection: Art by American Women
2001
(Exhibition catalog)Rice, Sue Sellars12 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pages150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Schwarz, Robert Devlin130 pages (color)North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesThe Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993Eitner, Lorenz (others)418 pages (color)The Apple of America The Apple in 19th Century American Art
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Weber, Bruce48 pages (color)American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Adams, Henry (others)495 pages (color)Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.271 pages (color)Art by American Women Collection Louise and Alan Sellars
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E146 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings622 pagesThe Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesAmerican Painting
1990Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)319 pages (color)Women Artists in White Mountains, 1840-1940
1990MacIntyre, Frances S10 pages (color)Art by American Women
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E17 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings612 pagesPaintings by American Women The Collection of Louise and Alan Sellers
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Sternberg, Paul E56 pages (color)Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Weber, Bruce185 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings472 pagesAmerican Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum
1987Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro)94 pages (color)American Women Artists 1830-1930
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Tufts, Eleanor (others)256 pages (color)American Watercolors
1986Finch, Christopher312 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints (Hirschl & Adler Galleries)
1985
(Exhibition catalog)Dreishpoon, Douglas (essay)63 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesThe New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites (The Brooklyn Museum)
1985
(Exhibition catalog)Ferber, Linda S.; William H. Gerdts288 pages (color)Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie851 pagesAmerican Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)88 pages (color)Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
1984Foshay, Ellen M202 pages (color)Down Garden Paths The Floral Environment in American Art
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Gerdts, William H144 pages (color)American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer560 pages (color)Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981Gerdts, William H292 pages (color)Women Artists in Washington Collections
1979
(Exhibition catalog)Withers, Josephine144 pages (color)American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976Stebbins, Theodore E464 pages (color)America as Art
1976Taylor, Joshua C320 pages (color)Women Artists in America II
1975Collins, Jim L.430 pagesAmerican Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
1974
(Exhibition catalog)E B Crocker Art Gallery28 pages (color)The Pennsylvania Academy And Its Women
1974
(Exhibition catalog)Pennsylvania Academy48 pagesThe Chromolithographs of Louis Prang
1973McClinton, Katharine M.246 pages (color)Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Naylor, Maria1,075 pagesBiographical Sketches of American Artists
1972Earle, Helen L370 pagesAmerican Still Life Painting
1971Gerdts, William; Russell Burke264 pages (color)Women Artists of America 1707-1964
1965
(Exhibition catalog)Gerdts, William H32 pagesThe New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesHistory of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954Clark, Eliot296 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesOfficial Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
1904
(Exhibition catalog)Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor)281 pagesArt in America a Critical and Historical Sketch
1879Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele214 pages